Compassionate and Understanding Care for Victims of Human Trafficking

Labor migration is an economic and social mobility strategy that benefits millions of people around the world, yet human trafficking and the exploitation of low-wage workers is pervasive. The negative health consequences of human trafficking are sufficiently prevalent and damaging that they comprise a public health problem of global magnitude. Dignity Health is the largest hospital system in California and has undergone a huge initiative to train its providers on human trafficking, creating protocols for identification and potential intervention.